But at least, he's proposing to tackle the problem.
Wait? Where did you say he came from? Huntsville, Alabama? Isn't there that they have a BBORS (Big Bunch of Rocket Scientists)?
Must be more pork...
Seriously... Taxing science-fiction... How about free-speech issues? How about taxing sectors that beneficy from Space, say, like satellite communications (especially satellite TV networks)?
However, if I were a yank, I wouldn't mind paying a 1% tax on computers for that, too.
Indian American? What race was the store manager? Or do we not need to know that for some reason?
It's not necessary. It's quite obvious that an asshole like that can only be white...
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This statement is the proof of trollness. It is incredibly obvious to ANYONE who has ever bought a copyable medium that you can not return it, or illegal use copying would be thru the roof. Note: Illegal use copying: making a copy of something to which you do not posess the origional. I'm all for open source and fair use and hate the copy proof CD's, etc. but - This is just COMMON SENSE. You can't buy a CD and rip it and expect to be able to return it.
You're so full of shit, your sideburns are brown.
HMV will refund your money if you bring back a CD, no questions asked.
Having worked in retail, this actually sounds ALOT like someone who came into the store, got refused the price, and then proceeded to be really loud and annoying, probably refusing to leave, until the manager called the police.
Retailers are so used to think that they a **ENTITLED** to screw their customers scot-free; you have to rattle their cage once in a while. A friend of mine bought some porn videos from a porn store, and wanted to return one; when be bought it, the store clerk simply forgot to stamp the receipt with the "UNREFUNDABLE" stamp.
When we showed-up, the first thing the clerk did was take the receipt and stamp it with the "UNREFUNDABLE" stamp. I immediately started to yell and shout that they were a bunch of fuckers to screw their customers like that. The store was full of customers. The manager came and I shouted at him how his employee was screwing us. He then shouted back at me and I just shouted louder.
My friend, an oriental, could not believe I would be shouting like that in a store!!!
The manager then told me to leave; when I said "NO", he threatened to call the cops, I then shouted back "fine, call the cops, and I'll show them how the fuck you are screwing your customers". Now, the customers were silently starting to go out of the store.
Nothing like emptying the store of customers to scare a store manager shitless! He relented and finally refunded my friend for his pr0n movie. I then made sure to say very loudly "it's too bad that you have to shout to get decent service".
That's nothing. The french city of Rennes doesn't even have half a million people, yet it just opened an subway!!! (Yes, this was a waste of money - for the same price, they could have had 3-4 streetcar lines).
Sheesh. If monorails were really so good, they would be all over the place. But 200 years (okay, 198) years after Richard Trevithick invented the steam locomotive (btw, the , birail systems are quite prevalent throughout the known universe).
Must be their inherent simplicity and stability, no? If you really look around, there aren't really much monorails...
Where else, exactly, do you expect Biff and Muffy to park the Beamer?
On the fucking street, feeding the meter (which should have a limit of 1.5 hours, so those jerks will have to go out during the day and feed it again a few times, just to teach them to use public transit).
I work with a small clinic located in a methodist church, even our not so technically literate spanish/broken english speaking doctor who runs the clinic knows that he has to have licenses for all of the software that get's donated to him by way of the hardware that's brought in. If he, with his admittedly low understanding of all things computer, understands that simple premise and understands the necessity to get things right from the beginning then I can't hold the schools free from guilt.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ! The guy's a MEDICAL DOCTOR, which means he can use his head a little bit, well, at least enough to go through medical school!!!
You make it sound that it is a prodigy that someone understands the need for proper licensing!!!
Personally I think that schools are miserably mismanaged.
Well, for a start, how about stopping bitching about school taxes? It's because of fucking greedy assholes like you that the public schools are so badly underfunded, so they can't attract competent people to work for them.
Around here, CompUsa takes this to an extreme, every person walking out of the store has his/her bag checked against the reciept.
They have no fucking right to search you. If they insist, next time, if they don't let you go out, call the cops and lodge a complaint for illegal detention.
Reminds me... A few weeks back, I went to the government-owned casino, and stood for about 20 minutes by the roulette table, gambling nothing at all. I just got a big kick watching all the chips going down the chipping machine, effectively going into my pocket... All that much I won't have to pay in taxes!!!
The audit is designed to prove ownership of the software. In essence, Microsoft is possibly forcing them to prove their own guilt. If you walk out of a store and set off the alarms, you have to show a receipt for your merchandise to prove that you paid for it. It's not up to the store to conduct an inventory analysis and prove there is a sweater missing. It's up to you to prove that you paid for it and own it legit.
This is UTTER BULLSHIT. If you walk out of the store and you set of their alarms, you just set off their alarm. It ***DOESNT MEAN YOU STOLE SOMETHING***. They may ask to see your receipt, but THEY HAVE NO GODDAMMED FUCKING RIGHT TO SEARCH YOU. All they can do is make a citizen's arrest of you, and call in the cops, WHO ALONE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEARCH YOU (not demand a receipt). IT'S UP TO THEM AND THE POLICE TO ***PROVE*** THAT YOU STOLE SOMETHING, not you to prove that you're innocent. Then, when they don't find anything, you have all the right in the world to sue the store for false arrest.
Just because some bigheaded store owner or bill gates says something doesn't make it law.
School districts in my region are lacking good textbooks for want of money; I find it hard to believe that they can hire the kind of tenacious lawyers that Microsoft can afford. Hell, they even wore down the DOJ in settlement talks by arguing every single point into the wee hours.
Now, if this makes it to court, the school district head shows up, sans lawyers, and flatly tells the judge that, due to budget cuts, they can't afford to defend themselves. Of course, the district will lose, and Microsoft win. Now, what if Microsoft decides to collect upon it's judgment, will the school district specially raise the school taxes to pay for that?
Now think of the good P.R. Microsoft will get for that...
How the fuck a *** PRIVATE *** company has the *** POWER *** to force a *** GOVERNMENT ENTITY *** to face an audit??? The state government should call-in the state troopers to fire at will on microsoft goons!!!
I read a really interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly Journal, not too long ago. The article discussed how the Muslim world used to be the center of art and science in the world. They were way ahead of the rest of the world. So the article investigated why that changed.
It made a very persuasive argument that openness and freedom of expression were the primary reasons. Though it may be a coincidence, I doubt it. At the time that the Muslim world was leading art and science, it was much freer and open than other nations of the world. As west became more open and allowed more freedoms, and the Muslim nations did the opposite, the balance began to change and has been that way to this day.
At about the same time, both in the christian and in the muslim worlds, two philosophers (whose names elude me - I believe one was Aquino) mused on the relationship of science and religion.
The christian one found that science will allow man to find god, whilst the muslim found that science will distance man from god.
So, since that time, the christians pursued science whilst the muslims shunned it, and you see the result right now.
The fact that it is freeware does not change the copyright that applies to it.
So what? Just like when you buy a magazine, you're allowed to rip-off the pages and paste them into a scrapbook (or sell them on e-bay), so you oughta be allowed to excise the parts of a copyrighted program you just bought that you don't like, EULA notwithstanding (cause the EULA can clamour whatever it wants, it certainly can't remove your LEGAL RIGHTS.
Kazaa Lite has caught the attention of Sharman Networks, the Australian company that purchased Kazaa earlier this year, and in a statement released Wednesday said that the company, "
will vigorously defend our rights and take action against parties engaged in misrepresenting our software. Consumers are being deceived with ripped off and highly suspect code, and we are determined that their rights, enjoyment and machines are not prejudiced."
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Wait? Where did you say he came from? Huntsville, Alabama? Isn't there that they have a BBORS (Big Bunch of Rocket Scientists)?
Must be more pork...
Seriously... Taxing science-fiction... How about free-speech issues? How about taxing sectors that beneficy from Space, say, like satellite communications (especially satellite TV networks)?
However, if I were a yank, I wouldn't mind paying a 1% tax on computers for that, too.
HMV will refund your money if you bring back a CD, no questions asked.
When we showed-up, the first thing the clerk did was take the receipt and stamp it with the "UNREFUNDABLE" stamp. I immediately started to yell and shout that they were a bunch of fuckers to screw their customers like that. The store was full of customers. The manager came and I shouted at him how his employee was screwing us. He then shouted back at me and I just shouted louder.
My friend, an oriental, could not believe I would be shouting like that in a store!!!
The manager then told me to leave; when I said "NO", he threatened to call the cops, I then shouted back "fine, call the cops, and I'll show them how the fuck you are screwing your customers". Now, the customers were silently starting to go out of the store.
Nothing like emptying the store of customers to scare a store manager shitless! He relented and finally refunded my friend for his pr0n movie. I then made sure to say very loudly "it's too bad that you have to shout to get decent service".
Sheesh. If monorails were really so good, they would be all over the place. But 200 years (okay, 198) years after Richard Trevithick invented the steam locomotive (btw, the , birail systems are quite prevalent throughout the known universe).
Must be their inherent simplicity and stability, no? If you really look around, there aren't really much monorails...
You make it sound that it is a prodigy that someone understands the need for proper licensing!!!
Reminds me... A few weeks back, I went to the government-owned casino, and stood for about 20 minutes by the roulette table, gambling nothing at all. I just got a big kick watching all the chips going down the chipping machine, effectively going into my pocket... All that much I won't have to pay in taxes!!!
Just because some bigheaded store owner or bill gates says something doesn't make it law.
Now think of the good P.R. Microsoft will get for that...
How the fuck a *** PRIVATE *** company has the *** POWER *** to force a *** GOVERNMENT ENTITY *** to face an audit??? The state government should call-in the state troopers to fire at will on microsoft goons!!!
The christian one found that science will allow man to find god, whilst the muslim found that science will distance man from god.
So, since that time, the christians pursued science whilst the muslims shunned it, and you see the result right now.